Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Writers create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn— that there… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't be practical to have sections called "Dog Stories", "Horse Stories", "Mid-life Crisis and Adultery", "Writers and Artists Struggling to Discover… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I believe, when it comes to storytelling ... that mistakes are often the beginning of the best ideas. After all, a mistake… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I’ll overreach myself once too… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The novelty and freshness you'll bring to the field won't come from the new ideas you think up. Truly new ideas are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Who but the adolescent is free to have the adventures that most of us are looking for when we turn to storytellers… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“If a tale we're reading or watching on screen is too familiar, it becomes boring; we know the end from the beginning… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
